{"conversationCode":"001-060","tapeNumber":1,"conversationNumber":60,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-001-060","startDateTime":"1971-04-09T18:35:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-04-09T18:47:00.000Z","startDate":"9-Apr-1971","startTime":"1:35 PM","endDate":"9-Apr-1971","endTime":"1:47 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On April 9, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 1:35 pm and 1:47 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 001-060 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":1,"chronRelease":"First Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"5-Oct-1999","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 1-60\n\nDate: April 9, 1971\nTime: Unknown between 1:35 pm and 1:47 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\n\fThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 476-18]\n\n     Call to Arthur F. Burns","filename":["001-060.mp3"],"tapeStart":"02:07:46","tapeEnd":"02:07:52","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"001-059","nextCode":"001-061","transcript":[{"start":0.05,"end":1.46,"text":"Dr. Arthur Burns, please."},{"start":1.64,"end":2.3,"text":"Yes, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon initiates a call to the White House operator to be connected with Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur F. Burns. This brief exchange serves as the administrative bridge for a subsequent, more substantive discussion between the President and Burns regarding economic policy. No further substantive discourse occurs during this specific interaction.","topics":["Arthur F. Burns","Federal Reserve","Economic policy","White House operations"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T20:57:02.789Z"},"topicSlugs":["arthur-f-burns","federal-reserve","economic-policy","white-house-operations"],"audioDurationSec":3,"audioFiles":[{"file":"001-060.mp3","bytes":69589,"durationSec":2.83,"bitrate":196943,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:20.350Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/001-060.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/001-060","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/1/conversation-001-060","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}